From the “weather is not climate” department. 815 new snowfall records, 304 low temperature, and 403 lowest max temperature records were set this week.
Here’s a summary:
| Record Events for Sun Dec 6, 2009 through Sat Dec 12, 2009 | |
| Total Records: | 2601 |
| Rainfall: | 992 |
| Snowfall: | 815 |
| High Temperatures: | 36 |
| Low Temperatures: | 304 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 403 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 51 |
Data from NOAA via the HW map generator
UPDATE: Puzzled by the single odd record high temperature in West Texas of 80F in Sheffield, TX on Dec 9th, I called the NWS office in Midland/Odessa, TX to ask about it today (Monday). The meteorologist on duty was very helpful. While he first throught it may by a typo, perhaps a 3 that got turned into an 8 on a report, a review of the synoptic conditions that day revealed some very strong southerly winds ahead of the Arctic cold front that day. At a pass in the Pecos, winds were clocked at 112mph. Thus it appears that this station go a brief benefit of some very strong warming southerly wind.
I’ve seen this effect happen before. In fact it can result in a record or near record high temperature being achieved on the same day as a record or near record low temperature if the front is moving fast enough and has a strong temperature gradient.
The record high there does not appear to be in error. – Anthony
Isn’t it wonderful that all the “raw data” is now computer adjustable to match the computer projections. Next year will be the hottest ever, it has already been inputed into the adjustments of the field records of weather to create the “raw data” climate temperature records.
actually;
The Ice Age great North American glaciar will build first on the Canadian shield and not in the Artic Ocean. Heavy snows cause Ice build up and not severe cold, as anyone who has lived in snow can tell you.
Neil Jones (22:52:54) : “They are trying to lock at least part of the world into their “New World Order” before the cooling becomes undeniable, even to the acolytes of their new religion.”
http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Politics/nazis/
“The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypsies who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the “New World Order” and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn’t fall into the hands of “terrorists and madmen”. Right wing fanatics of the “Old Order” who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for “fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people”.”
Bishop Hill linked to this wonderful article.
The whole article is worth a read.
Bruckner8 (21:35:09)
Now where did that warming signature go?
‘I’ll look for you in old Honolulu,
San Francisco, Ashtabula,…’
Patrick Davis (22:26:33) : Yep, Sydney is cool today. I have to put a jumper (sweater) and slippers on today. When I was in high school here in the 70s I remember packing away any warm clothes in October and not needing them again until March. You didn’t need any warm clothes until autumn. But never mind. I’m sure Kevin-Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong will return us to “normal” weather patterns while he’s in Copenhagen 😉
Not the way I read it. It seems that it was first an increase in snow in the Rocky Mountains. That increases albedo and it cascades from there. Has anyone heard anything lately about the glaciers in Glacier park? I haven’t either. Seems they have gone quiet on that subject. That must mean they are increasing else we would still be hearing about it. Last information I can find is from the early 2000’s. There was a lot of press when the glaciers were shrinking … but nothing for the last 5 years. I take that to mean they must have stopped shrinking.
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!
I’ve been waiting for my “Weather is not climate” fix for a while now!
I could see all the snow in the news. I knew it was cold, but the waiting is now over.
Gee, the more the “warmers” gather together, the colder it gets… Better not let AlGore visit CRU when Hansen is in town!
Of course these rare isolated events do nothing to disprove AGW. However, as seen in the comments here (h/t to Climate Depot), someone finding a blooming rose in their garden in Maine last weekend, a month later than two years ago, is unequivocal proof of global warming.
Yes, that was it, a rose. Nothing at all about soil conditions, siting, not even if it was the same plant, there was a blooming rose therefore there is warming.
Truly the comments there are fascinating, on a par with local news coverage of lethal car wrecks. These coffeehouse elites are entirely convinced they are perfectly right while the “deniers” are unscientific unwashed savages, not worthy of discussing the issues with as obviously the heathens are too ignorant to comprehend their superior logic. They also tossed in the obligatory denigration of Sarah Palin, of course.
Strangely they are blissfully unaware how these snobbish comments of theirs reflect how scientifically ignorant they themselves are. We simply must keep them from “saving these dumb beasts from themselves,” as apparently they cannot recognize the person staring at them from their own mirror.
We’re behind the times.
The scare now is Ocean Acidification, its been on 3 or 4 MSM outlets over the weekend, BBC Radio 4 news, and Daily Telegraph or Sunday Times (UK) (I can’t remember which and they have now gone for re-cycling) for instance.
Does this mean elements of the AGC/AGW crew are silently conceding that the science is not fixed?
Not related to the topic, but on the Google UK website they are indicating how impartial they are!
“New! Explore impact of climate change on Google Earth”
Nick Stokes (22:06:32) :
Leon Brozyna (21:48:18) :
Yes, it’s just weather. And that means when it’s cold somewhere, it’s often hot somewhere else. Here in Melbourne, just near that mountain top where it snowed, we had our hottest November average, by 6C, which is huge for a monthly average. Beat the record by 2C. And we’re having a hot year. Wednesday’s forecast is 39C.
Not to be too pointed about it, but:
How do you know you had the hottest November? We’ve seen lately that a lot of the temperature series have had their data ‘cooked’ and I vaguely remember a story about the Aussie BOM ‘recalculating’ all their history…
I’ll take the “picture of snow in the paper” over the “mystery meat thermometer stew” any day.
Frankly, until Aussie BOM publishes their RAW data, they have no warm average records of any kind. All they have is Yet Another Adjustment Binge. YAAB.
If you can show an unadjusted temperature from a well sited thermometer, I’d love to see the “warm record”. If all you have is YAAB Average, well, fantasies are nice, but I’ve got real cold to look at. It’s that white stuff falling out of the sky 😎
For insight into why your Aussie Average is an exercise in onanism, see:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/ghcn-pacific-basin-lies-statistics-and-australia/
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/gistemp-aussy-fair-go-and-far-gone/
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/new-zealand-polynesian-polarphobia/
and for the rest of the (NOT warming in the base data) Pacific Islands:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/ghcn-pacific-islands-sinking-from-the-top-down/
And from the parent “global anaysis” posting that holds these links:
The end of it all is that the entire Pacific Basin is substantially flat on temperatures. Hard to have “Global Warming” if the Pacific is not participating. Australia and New Zealand show warming, but only due to thermometer change artifacts. For New Zealand, it is one single cold thermometer: And when that one is deleted from the whole record, not just the last few years, New Zealand has no “Global Warming” either.
Hard to have “Global Warming” when the 1/2 of the planet that is the Pacific Basin is dead flat with only a small “ripple” as the PDO flips state every 30 or so years.
With that, I think what you ought to have said was that you were having: “record hot locations for November thermometers this year. Thermometer locations 6 C hotter than where they used to be!”
See, works much better that way. And more correct too…
A new forcast to boost morale of the warmists: Global warming will resume its upward climb again next year, UK Met Office predicted (12/10) at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen – forecasting that 2010 will be the hottest year ever recorded for the world. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/next-year-forecast-to-be-hottest-on-record-1838184.html
It is known that also James Hansen made such prophecy: Given our expectation of the next El Niño beginning in 2009 or 2010, it still seems likely that a new global temperature record will be set within the next 1-2 years, despite the moderate negative effect of the reduced solar irradiance. Since 2009 will not give a global temperature record, 2010 will be the only chance to supply it.
Again a prophecy to verify…
Brrrrr, looks chilly over there. Maybe you should head for balmy New York if you live in the northeast.
Starting to turn cold here in the south of England. Expect we’ll be having some of what you’ve had in the next few days. Always seem to get US weather 5-10 days later.
Winter draws on.
Ah, you see all those red spots down on the Florida pan-handle? Well those are all the Rothera Point temperature measurements for the whole of the USA.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/13/frigid-folly-uhi-siting-issues-and-adjustments-in-antarctic-ghcn-data/
So, you see, I have just proved to you all that the USA has had one of the warmest December weeks on record. Another scientific investigation from Self Deception Enterprises Ltd, based near a university in East Anglia.
Job done.
Thanks Richard Holle for that very erudite comment, and the maps. I am going to surprise my son and family in Phoenix Az with a weather forecast for Christmas Eve.
No warming here on the southern coast of Natal; slight cooling in fact. Been raining 5 or 6 days a week for three months, moderate stuff rather than storms, and I should like an indication of when that is going to stop!
>>Edmonton International Airport beat the previous
>>Dec 13th record by 10℃ hitting a low of -46.1℃.
>>Interestingly the previous record was set in 2008 at -36.1℃.
Hey, that’s some trend. If we extend a straight line through those points, Edmonton will be at absolute zero within 23 years.
Impressive.
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“photon without a Higgs (22:13:09) :
warmers better start praying for sunspots ;-)”
Prayers answered, two regions on the visible disk, one growing quickly:
http://gong2.nso.edu/dailyimages/img/jpg/iqa/200912/udiqa091214/udiqa091214t0844.jpg
JB Williamson (22:24:42) :
“The independent newspaper …”
How about “The co-dependent newspaper …”?
Looks like John Bull is headed for the same misery as Cousin Jonathan
“Snow on the way as Britain in grip of cold snap”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6807288/Snow-on-the-way-as-Britain-in-grip-of-cold-snap.html
Noticable that the forecasts are not from the Met Office – presumably they couldn’t be dragged away from their Playstation 3.
debreuil:
“It seems to me there is a bit of a retreat from hysteria in both the ’science’ and media.”
The warm is turning.
RT @TRUTHINHISTORY Big Foot caught stiffing a hair salon after a full body shave. When asked why, he replied that global warming made him do it. #gwhoax #tcot
More propaganda.
“New! Explore impact of climate change on Google Earth”
In true treehugger style, I went out in the back yard and asked my trees what the story was. Answer: “We’re freezing our roots off!”.
We always seem to get the same “Mexican Food” forecast from the warmers every day “Chili today, hot tamale.”